Vocab
What is the study of Earth and its people?
Geography.
What is an area with a certain shared characteristic?
Region
What does the "climate" of a region mean?
The average weather over time.
When geographers talk about raw materials as a resource, what do they mean?
OR
Can you give me an example of raw materials?
Resources that can be used to create finished products
Wood, cotton, etc.
When people started to settle down and farm the lands in Mesopotamia in 9000 BCE, what invention helped farmers bring water to the lands? (so these farms were not on shores, how did they water their plants?)
Hint: in Greece, they used aqueducts.
irrigation systems
All of the people who live in a place are called what?
(Think size-wise)
What is a population
Is Tornado Alley a formal region or a perceptual region?
Perceptual; while they have similarities, there are no formal boundaries stating where it starts and ends.
When there is a widespread cutting down of trees, what is that called?
Hint: Think, where do you often see a bunch of trees together?
What does "non-renewable resource" mean?
OR
Can you give an example of a non-renewable resource?
A resource that cannot be quickly restored and used again (think a special power in a video game that you have to wait for it to charge)
Fossil Fuels are a big non-renewable resource
Athens is said to be the birth of which kind of government?
Communism
Democracy
Socialism
What is a dynasty?
A long reign of people from the same bloodline. Much like the monarchs in England, just a bit further East.
(Should sound somewhat like this!)
What is the latitude line (East to West) that splits the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere?
Hint: under this, the toilets flush counter-clockwise
Equator splits the planet into northern and southern hemispheres.
Greenhouse gases are gases that trap heat in Earth's atmosphere.
What is something we can do to help with greenhouse gases?
Plant more green plants. Drive electric cars. Use more renewable energy. Bike/walk instead of drive.
What is "any harmful substances that occurs in the the environment" called?
Hint: Smog is an example of this
Pollution
During the 1200s, nomadic warriors from Central Asia conquered huge amounts of land called the Mongols. They kept roads and provinces safe, which had what effect on people?
A. Travelled less
B. Travelled more to trade
C. It did not affect them at all
travel more often, to trade more things
What is the movement of people from one place to another in order to live there called?
immigration
What is the central line of longitude (north to south) that splits the planet into East and West hemispheres?
Prime Meridian
How does climate change affect glaciers? How do the affected glaciers affect the rest of the world?
--> what is climate change?
--> what are glaciers?
--> how are these two linked?
-->what effect does that have on the rest of the world?
Climate changes can make glaciers melt. Glaciers melting can raise sea levels, which affect low-lying cities by flooding them.
What is any useful material provided by Earth called? (it should be 2 words)
Natural Resource
In the very simplest definition, what are the Silk Roads?
The Silk Roads were trade routes (need this part at least) connecting Asia to the Mediterranean (Greece).
What is the spread of beliefs and ideas from place to place called?
Cultural Diffusion
There are how many continents (officially) across the world, and can you name them all?
7
North America (USA, Canada, Mexico)
South America (Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela)
Europe (France, Spain, Italy, Germany)
Asia (Japan, China, Middle East)
Africa (South Africa, Tanzania, Malawi, Nigeria)
Australia (Australia and island of New Zealand)
Antarctica (just that, too cold)
What is a shift in climate over time called?
Climate Change
Give an example of a renewable resource.
Wind, water (falling water), geothermal (heat of the Earth), solar
While we still use many things daily that were created thousands of years ago, what did Ancient Indian scholars develop that we all still use in daily life?
(They may show up in math class)
Numerals (and also invented the number zero!)